Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Sending Mail to Ghana

The Church has established the Pouch Mail program to help families to communicate better with their missionaries in countries with poor mail systems. When you mail your letters to the Pouch Mail Department in Salt Lake City, the Church places all the letters bound for one mission in a big package and ships them to the mission through an express carrier service. When the letters arrive at the mission office in the destination country, the office Elders open the package of letters and distribute them to the Elders and Sisters throughout the mission.

Church leaders are asking members to send single sheet letters folded into three parts. Then do the following:



• Lay the blank side of the single-sheet letter facing down with the writing facing you.
• Fold the top of the letter about one-third of the way down, and crease.
• Fold the bottom of the letter to the top of the first fold, and crease.
• Use two pieces of tape or two sticker tabs on the top to secure it, not more than one inch from each side, but do not seal the ends.
• Do not include any other item in the letter such as printed pictures, currency or medication, etc.
• In the top left corner, write the return address.
• Affix a stamp in the top right corner
• In the middle of the sheet, write:

Elder & Sister Turner
Ghana Cape Coast Mission
P.O. Box 30150
Salt Lake City, Ut 84130-0150


More to come on sending care packages...

2 comments:

jsturner1 said...

No envelope?

Kara said...

no envelope! my guess is that somewhere along the way they had trouble with people trying to stuff as much as they could into an envelope. you can send "normal" letters in envelopes through normal mail service but it is much slower and less dependable.